Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

NETHERLANDS, Assassination of Johan and Cornelius de Wit, 1672, a silver medal by P. Aury, formed of two cast plates joined by a broad rim, busts vis-à-vis, rev. the brothers being slaughtered by a many-bodied monster of savage animals, date in chronogram, 71mm, wnr (BDM I, 94). Very fine £200-£260